The wheat at home is stored in the granary. It is said to be a granary, but in fact it is just a large frame made of bamboo made by Yunlin. The bamboo frame is tight and the wheat inside will not leak out.
Looking at the big bamboo basket filled with wheat, Yunjing felt troubled.
The thing is two feet high from the ground and placed on a base made of several slippery bamboos. The reason for this is to prevent the food from getting damp, and the slippery bamboos can also prevent mice from climbing up and causing trouble.
Disaster for food.
The bamboo basket containing the wheat itself is nearly one and a half meters high, and with the two-foot-high base underneath, Yunjing, who is now in his early two years, is only a small fat mound of less than one meter, which he cannot reach...
How can this be fixed?
Yunjing couldn't help scratching his head.
After walking half a circle around the bamboo basket, his eyes lit up and he discovered that there was a small gate at the bottom of the bamboo basket. He only needed to open a wooden board and the wheat inside could flow out along the bamboo tube.
The small gate was only a little more than one meter above the ground. He only needed to bring a chair and stand on it.
So he dragged a chair with great effort, found a small sieve with a diameter of one and a half feet at home, and then stood on the stool and opened the valve to catch the wheat.
After receiving about half a catty, he closed the valve. More was not necessary. After all, making maltose for the first time was more of an experimental purpose.
"The key to maltose is malt. Germinating wheat is a delicate job. The container holding the wheat must be water-permeable, otherwise the wheat will easily rot when soaked in water. However, wheat germination requires water, so the container must have a certain degree of water-locking ability.
, this bamboo sieve only meets the requirement of water permeability. If you want to lock in the moisture, you have to put a piece of cloth inside, preferably gauze, but my family is so poor that cloth ends the size of my palm are extremely precious. Where can I get gauze?
?Forget it, that’s great. I’ll water it a few more times a day. Anyway, I’m still young and don’t have to work. I have plenty of time..."
Recalling the maltose making process, due to limited conditions, Yunjing could only keep it simple.
Getting good wheat to germinate must not be known to the family, otherwise the buttocks will definitely be opened, so Yunjing took the sieve containing wheat outside the house, went to the back of the shed where firewood was piled, and decided to cultivate it here
malt.
Families usually collect firewood at the front door, where they are less likely to be discovered.
However, just to be on the safe side, he decided to use tree branches to cover it, which would allow the wheat to stay in a cool and shaded place, meeting the growing conditions and killing two birds with one stone.
Put two wooden sticks under the sieve to prevent the sieve from directly contacting the ground and affecting the growth of malt. Then Yunjing spread the wheat inside, went to the water tank to get water to soak the wheat, and then covered the sieve with branches, and that was it.
It's a job. You only need to water it every day to ensure the moisture for wheat germination and wait for the wheat germ to grow.
The process was not complicated, but the cloudscape was too small, so it was extremely laborious to do. For example, he had to put a stool under his feet to scoop out water from the water tank.
Once again, Yunjing desperately hoped that he would grow up quickly, even though he knew that when he grew up, he would not be as carefree as he is now...
That day, Yunjing's family came back from work. In the evening, Grandpa Yunlin specifically asked him if anyone had come to the house, saying that a sieve he had made was missing.
Of course Yunjing would not say that the sieve was taken away by him, but just shook his head and said he didn't know. Then Yunlin frowned and muttered that he had remembered it wrong? Hey, my memory is not good when I am old...
Yunjing admired his grandfather's reaction. He had knitted so many bamboo products at home, carrying baskets, dustpans and sieves in his pockets, but he could tell at a glance that an inconspicuous sieve was missing.
To this, he could only say that his family was poor and everything seemed very precious. Even though it was just a small sieve, it could be sold for a few copper coins in the town.
As the days passed, the family was busy farming and did not notice Yunjing's small movements. Due to seasonal reasons, under Yunjing's careful care, it took half a month for the wheat to sprout and grow to the level he was satisfied with.
Next is the key step of making maltose, which can be regarded as a major challenge for a small cloud scene.
We have glutinous rice at home, so it’s not difficult to steal some. What’s difficult is to make a fire to cook glutinous rice. He doesn’t have a stove high enough, so it’s too difficult for him. It’s difficult to operate. If one person doesn’t do it well, let alone maltose, he’ll light it at home.
It's possible...
"So we can't do it at home. Fire prevention is urgent. We can only go outside the house. The problem is that if we go outside the house, there will be no pot..."
Yunjing was confused, and finally set his sights on the pickle jar at home. If there was no pot, he used a pickle jar instead. This thing is fired at high temperature and is more than enough for cooking glutinous rice, and can even be used for the subsequent fermentation process.
Do it in a pickle jar.
After making up his mind, Yunjing took advantage of his family members to go to work in the fields at noon one day to start the operation.
I made a simple stove with stones in the yard, cleaned an empty pickle jar, got about two kilograms of glutinous rice, washed the rice, added water and put it on the stove.
This simple process almost made him tired. The pickle jar weighed several kilograms, and with the glutinous rice and water it weighed about ten kilograms. Such a weight was too heavy for his small body, and he almost broke it several times.
The pickle jar broke.
However, after finally completing these steps, the greater difficulty almost made him give up making maltose.
The so-called difficulties are actually not difficult at all for ordinary people, but here in Yunjing it is extremely difficult.
Make a fire.
Just such a simple thing made Yunjing almost give up.
There was no lighter, and there was no fire at home. There was only a primitive fire-making tool like a fire sickle. Yunjing used the fire sickle to knock for a long time. He almost broke his arm but could not raise the fire. At most, there were only scattered sparks...
"Isn't this too difficult?"
In the yard, Yunjing, who had everything ready, looked at the pickle jar on the simple stove and was speechless.
However, it's now time, and it's impossible to give up. The fire sickle can't light a fire, but it doesn't mean that Yunjing has nothing to do.
He found a small piece of bamboo, and then went to the corner of the wall to scrape a white powder, which was Glauber's salt. In his previous life, he had learned common sense in elementary school. There were many such things at the base of walls in rural areas, especially where livestock were kept.
After a while, Yunjing scraped off half a bowl of Glauber's salt.
Put the scraped Glauber's salt into a simple stove, then go to the house to find charcoal and make it into powder and mix it with the Glauber's salt.
"Tsk, this thing can be called the most primitive gunpowder, the best combustion accelerant. It is not easy to use to make fire. It is too difficult for me. In order to make maltose, I have to climb the technology tree..."
Shaking his head, Yunjing, who was pressed for time, added twigs to the mixture of Glauber's salt and charcoal, and then began to tap the fire sickle. As sparks fell, the mixture burned with a slight stinging sound, and the flames jumped up, igniting the twigs.
The fire was finally lit, and then more firewood was added to increase the power and the glutinous rice was cooked.
Half an hour later, the glutinous rice was cooked. Yunjing put out the fire and used a spatula to stir the glutinous rice until it was almost a paste. At this time, the glutinous rice had cooled to about 40 to 50 degrees, then added chopped malt and stirred again.
Let it mix together thoroughly.
Looking at the mixture of glutinous rice and malt in most of the jar, this is the hope of maltose. After it is fermented and degraded to produce sugar juice, filter the sugar juice and boil it to get maltose.
The fermentation process requires a certain temperature to help microorganisms grow. Conditions are limited. Yunjing cannot move it into the bed, so he can only use a straw nest instead. Fortunately, there is straw at home. In previous years, after the rice harvest, the family would bring some back to make a fire.
Yunjing is just in use at this moment.
It was still behind the shed where firewood was kept. Yunjing built a nest with straw. He laboriously moved the jar containing the glutinous rice and malt mixture and put it away. He found a wooden board from home to seal the mouth of the jar. All he had to do next was to wait.
.
"If the sealing performance is not good, the fermentation process will inevitably be affected, and it may also affect the taste of the final maltose. However, conditions are limited, so this is the only way."
There is no way, the existing conditions impose too many restrictions on the cloud scenery.
After hiding the jar, Yun Jing began to destroy the body and traces. The stove where the fire was lit in the yard was dismantled, and the traces could not be completely erased. He simply went to the vegetable garden to get soil to cover it. If you don't observe carefully, you won't notice what happened here.
What.
That night, Jiang Susu deliberately asked Yunjing again and again if anyone was coming to her home, because a vegetable jar was missing and there was less rice in the rice vat!
Facing her mother's questions, Yunjing felt a headache...
